CCP Video Library

The following is a list of films and videos available in our collection which can be loaned out or viewed at Allen House. Be aware that the majority of our collection are VHS tapes. We also maintain a library of multicultural books, which you can find on our LibraryThing.

Title

Year

Description

Teaching Indians To Be White

1993

This brief but effective program chronicles
the attempts to integrate native children into dominant society through
educational means. As one episode in the ambitious six-part series Before
Columbus, this program is told entirely from the perspective of the native
peoples of the Western Hemisphere . It is purposefully expressed as a
"one-sided story" - the other side of the Columbus discovery
saga not often revealed in textbooks. Suitable for junior high school
through general adult audiences, Teaching Indians to Be White provides
a new and much-needed perspective on a historically controversial subject.

Securing Equal Opportunity in Higher Education

1997

With recent judicial and legislative decisions
weakening the foundation of affirmative action, your institution will
face greater challenges in building a culturally diverse community. Beyond
Affirmative Action: Securing Equal Opportunity in Higher Education examines
how these decisions affect women, minorities, and the well-being of the
entire campus population. Alternative ways to foster equal opportunity
and cultural vitality on the college campus are explored.

Ghana News Stories

2002

Ghana News Stories offers another fresh way
to compare and contrast world cultures. American students report from
Ghana , West Africa on everything from traditional customs to modern schools
to native wildlife.

RACE the power of an illusion Episode One

2003

Much of the program is devoted to understanding
why. We look at several scientific discoveries that illustrate why humans
cannot be subdivided into races and how there isn't a single characteristic,
trait - or even one gene - that can be used to distinguish all members
of one race from all members of another.

RACE the power of an illusion Episode Two

2003

Video traces the origins of the racial idea
to the European conquest of the New World and to the American slave system
- the first ever where all the slaves shared similar physical traits and
a common ancestry. Historian James Horton points out that the enslavement
of Africans was opportunistic, not based on beliefs about inferiority:
"[Our forebears] found what they considered an endless labor supply.
People who could be readily identified and so when they ran away they
couldn't melt into the population like Native Americans could. People
who knew how to grow tobacco, people who knew how to grow rice. They found
the ideal, from their standpoint, the ideal labor source

RACE the power of an illusion Episode Three

2003

The film begins by looking at the massive
immigration from eastern and southern Europe early in the 20th century.
Italians, Hebrews, Greeks and other ethnics were considered by many to
be separate races. Their "whiteness" had to be won. But who
was white? The 1790 Naturalization Act had limited naturalized citizenship
to "free, white persons." Many new arrivals petitioned the courts
to be legally designated white in order to gain citizenship. Armenians,
known as "Asiatic Turks," succeeded with the help of anthropologist
Franz Boas, who testified on their behalf as an expert scientific witness.

The Multicultural History Of The United States
Part 1: Pre-History Through 1699

1998

This program takes us from the earliest settlements
of North America through the arrivals of the Vikings, Europeans and Colonial
America.

The Multicultural History Of The United States
Part 2: 1700 Through 1849

1998

This program takes us from the beginning of
America 's search for it's own unique identity in modern political terms
through revolution and the growing pains of the world's first truly multi-cultural
nation.

The Multicultural History Of The United States
Part 3: 1850 Through Present

1998

This program illustrates the stresses and
strains of a maturing but divided society through the Civil War, Reconstruction,
universal suffrage and the struggle for civil rights, to the growth of
a truly multiracial and multiethnic society.

Up Against The Wall

1991

A black teen from a Chicago housing project
struggles to find acceptance after he transfers into a suburban high school.

It's Elementary

Talking About Gay Issues In School

1997

It's Elementary takes cameras into classrooms
across the U.S. to look at one of today's most controversial issues -
whether and how gay issues should be discussed in schools. It features
elementary and middle schools where (mainly heterosexual) teachers are
challenging the prevailing political climate and its attempt to censor
any dialogue in schools about gay people. Rather than focusing on the
debate between adults, though, the film takes the point of view of the
school children, starting as young as first grade.

Dealing With Diversity In The Classroom

1993

Kenneth J. Doka Ph.D narrates this video explaining
how demographic changes have affected education and shifted policy from
"melting pot" assimilation to cultural pluralism, this video
stresses the importance of understanding and respecting a student's culture.
It also discusses how to organize a classroom and curriculum to make students
from different backgrounds feel welcome and equal.

Prejudice Answering Children's Questions

1992

In ABC News: President Clinton, Answering
Children's Questions, Bill Clinton speaks candidly to kids about his experiences
serving his first term as President of the United States . Children want
to know about the challenges of foreign policy and the massive presidential
responsibility to prevent nuclear war. Anchorman Peter Jennings moderates
the question-and-answer session. This program is one in a series conducted
by the newsman, who provides children with a forum for asking advanced
questions about the complex world.

Free Indeed

1995

Free Indeed is a video drama about racism
that challenges white viewers to think about the privileges that come
with being white in North America . In the drama four white, middle-class
young adults play a card game as a pre-requisite for doing a service project
for a black Baptist church. The game leads to a discussion about the privileges
white people have.

Race Against Prime Time

1985

Race Against Prime Time documents how local
television newsmen anoint black community spokespersons, characterize
whites as victims and blacks as rioters and fail to place the disturbances
within the context of and decades of civic neglect. This film reminds
us that twenty-five years after the Kerner report decried media prejudice,
news reporting remains very much a white view of black realities.

Now Jane Elliott's critically award winning
Blue Eyed is available in a more useful, more concise version concentrating
all the drama and insight of the original into an even more powerful 30-minute
video. Jane Elliott's “blue eyed-brown eyed exercise” is one or the most
acclaimed and most widely used diversity training tool ever developed.
It has been covered by numerous television documentaries like CBS' Eye
of the Storm as well as appearances on the Today, Tonight, Donahue and
Oprah shows.

True Colors

1991

In this startling expose, ABC News Prime Time
Live anchor, Diane Sawyer explores skin color prejudice in America with
the help of two friends virtually identical in all respects but one--
John is white, Glen is black. Together they take part in a series of hidden
camera experiments exploring people's reactions to each in a variety of
situations. Acting within the scenario of moving to a new town, Prime
Time Live, undercover, follows John and Glen separately as they each try
to rent an apartment, respond to job listings, purchase a car, and conduct
everyday activities such as shopping. The responses in other the white
and racially mixed communities are shocking and consistent. In every instance,
John is welcomed into the community while Glen is discouraged by high
prices, long waits, and unfriendly salespeople. Diane Sawyer concludes
TRUE COLORS with a discussion with John and Glen about the outcome of
these experiments and their experiences with discrimination in daily life.
A corVISION Media Release Produced by ABC News

Class Dismissed

2005

Based on the forthcoming book by Pepi Leistyna,
Class Dismissed navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representations
from American television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shows,
police dramas, and daytime talk shows.

Featuring interviews with media analysts and cultural historians, this
documentary examines the patterns inherent in TV's disturbing depictions
of working class people as either clowns or social deviants -- stereotypical
portrayals that reinforce the myth of meritocracy.

Class Dismissed breaks important new ground in exploring the ways in
which race, gender, and sexuality intersect with class, offering a more
complex reading of television's often one-dimensional representations.
The video also links television portrayals to negative cultural attitudes
and public policies that directly affect the lives of working class people.

The Color of Fear

1995

The Color of Fear is an insightful,
groundbreaking film about the state of race relations in America as seen
through the eyes of eight North American men of Asian, European, Latino
and African descent. In a series of intelligent, emotional and dramatic
confrontations the men reveal the pain and scars that racism has caused
them. What emerges is a deeper sense of understanding and trust. This
is the dialogue most of us fear, but hope will happen sometime in our
lifetime.

The Way Home

1998

Over the course of eight months, sixty-four
women representing a cross-section of cultures, (Indigenous, African-American,
Arab, Asian, European-American, Jewish, Latina , and Multiracial) came
together to share their experience of racism in America .

With uncommon courage, the women speak their hearts and minds about resistance,
love, assimilation, standards of beauty, power, school experiences, and
more. Their candid conversations offer rare access into multi- dimensional
worlds invisible to outsiders. The abundance of photographs, dance, and
music provides a sensual richness to this provocative piece.

Connected: Careers For The Future

1997

Connected: Careers for the Future is a unique
educational video project aimed at young people of color. It's no secret
-- we're living in a world of tremendous flux. And nowhere is that more
obvious than in the workplace, where jobs are being transformed at an
astounding pace. However, one thing is becoming increasingly apparent
-- the best careers are, in one way or another, global. The goal of Connected:
Careers for the Future is to increase minority awareness about the variety
of international careers as we head into the 21st century.

Shades of Black: Diversity in African-American
Identity

, William E. Cross, Jr., presents the diversity
and texture that have always been the hallmark of Black psychology. Shades
of Black explodes the myth that self-hatred is the dominant theme
in Black identity. With a thorough review of social scientific literature
on Negro identity conducted between 1936 and 1967, Cross demonstrates
that important themes of mental health and adaptive strength have been
frequently overlooked by scholars, both Black and White, obsessed with
proving Black pathology. He examines the Black Power Movement and critics
who credit this era with a comprehensive change in Black self-esteem.
Allowing for a considerable gain in group identity among Black people
during this period, Cross shows how, before this, working and middle class,
and even many poor Black families were able to offer their progeny a legacy
of mental health and personal strength that sustained them in their struggles
for political and cultural consensus.

From Pyramids to Slave Dungeons, to Liberation

1993

Jawanza Kunjufu gives an overarching view
of African history from Egypt to the slave dungeons of West Africa , plotting
a course for continuing the African-American liberation.

Last Chance For Eden pt. 2

2002

The continuation of the conversation between
nine women and men about racism and sexism. Each of their stories are
filled with history, courage and wisdom. For their voices and struggles
remind us of how much farther we still need to go.

CIVITAS: Civility in the Classroom

2006

A humorous and lively video designed to help
create environments conducive to intellectual discourse, cooperation,
and learning. The program objectives are achieved as audience members
view the video and engage in discussion.

Ethnic Notions

1987

Emmy-winning documentary movie which pushes
viewers to follow the traces of American history, showing the racial stereotypes
and myths that have been influencing whites' perception of African-Americans.
The documentary is based on several visual images of blacks that shape
feelings about race. This movie interweaves mistral shows, advertisements
and other types of entertainment to show hideously caricatured blacks
with curly hair, big lips and bulging eyes, attending to whites with a
great servitude.

The Fairer Sex?

1994

ABC's "Prime Time Live" set out
to discover whether there are daily differences in being a male versus
a female in today's American society, particularly in the workplace. Julie
and Chris, professional testers in their late 20s, helped in the investigation.
They posed as two people who had just moved to a major urban area. We
follow them as they begin to get established, looking for jobs, shopping
for cars, even asking about playing golf. While Chris receives priority
treatment in nearly every test situation, Judith is often talked down
to + in some cases even ignored. This video will help organizations openly
discuss the gender discrimination issue and how it affects performance
and motivation in their organizations.

National Geographic: Skin

2002

Witness an ongoing scientific study that shows
how skin is important to attraction through chemistry. Follow two photographers—one
trying to prove through his photographs that skin is beautiful everywhere,
by encouraging people to be rid of their inhibitions; the other traveling
the world to document cultures who revere skin through the ancient art
of body decoration.

The History Channel: Ku Klux Klan A Secret
History

1996

Video ventures back to the days of the Reconstruction
South and through the landmarks in Klan history to tell the complete story
of the most famous hate group in America. Discover how the six original
Klansmen came together and chose their name. See how the release of America
's first blockbuster movie spurred a resurgence in the KKK and how they
expanded their target to include Jews, Catholics and immigrants as well
as blacks. Examine the tactics of Klan leaders like William Joseph Simmons
and David Duke. And, finally, find out how the Klan has repeatedly battled
back from the brink of extinction.

Black Panther Films

1967, 1968, 1969

Accompanying the Newsreel films is a massive
quantity of rare and exclusive materials culled from Roz Payne's extensive
collection of FBI documents, correspondence, and interviews with Black
Panthers and their supporters. It's all here, the government-sponsored
repression, the trials, exile, triumph, and reunion.

What We Want, What We Believe is not a straight-forward documentary—the
additional materials are like Roz Payne's home movies—but more like a
tapestry woven from fragments of cloth. As a whole, these fragments present
a rich and provocative history, straight from the mouths of Panthers,
their supporters, and even the agents charged with neutralizing them.

Integration with Dignity

2003

Clemson University became the first white
college or university in the state to integrate on January 28, 1963 .
Video shows the story of Clemson University 's peaceful desegregation
on January 18, 1963 .

Wrestling with Manhood

2002

Wrestling with Manhood is the first educational
program to pay attention to the enormous popularity of professional wrestling
among male youth, addressing its relationship to real-life violence and
probing the social values that sustain it as a powerful cultural force.
Richly illustrating their analysis with numerous examples, Sut Jhally
and Jackson Katz - the award-winning creators of the videos Dreamworlds
and Tough Guise, respectively - offer a new way to think about the enduring
problems of men ' s violence against women and bullying in our schools.

The Myth of the Liberal Media

1997

Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one
of the central tenets of our political culture, the idea of the "liberal
media." Instead, utilizing a systematic model based on massive empirical
research, they reveal the manner in which the news media are so subordinated
to corporate and conservative interests that their function can only be
described as that of "elite propaganda."

Skin Deep

1995

Skin Deep chronicles the eye-opening journey
of a diverse and divided group of college students as they awkwardly but
honestly confront each other's racial prejudices.

Academy Award nominated filmmaker Frances Reid follows students from
the University of Massachusetts , Texas A&M, Chico State , and U.C.
Berkeley to a challenging racial awareness workshop where they confront
each other's innermost feelings about race and ethnicity. She also accompanies
them back to their campuses and on visits home in an attempt to understand
why they think the way they do.

The African American Holiday of Kwanzaa

1995

This is a comprehensive overview of Kwanzaa,
including a brief history of the holiday, an explanation of the symbols
and principles of Kwanzaa, an interview with the creator of Kwanzaa —
Dr. Maulana Karenga, a candle lighting ceremony, and a community Kwanzaa
Karamu (feast).

America 's Civil Rights Years:

Eyes On The Prize

Volume 1

Awakenings (1954-1956) and Fighting Back (1957 – 1962)

1987

Episode 1: Awakenings (1954-1956) Awakenings
focuses on the catalytic events of 1954-1956. The Mississippi lynching
of 14-year-old Emmett Till led to a widely publicized trial where a courageous
black man took the stand and accused two white men of murder. In Montgomery
, Alabama , Rosa Parks refused to yield her bus seat to a white man and
triggered a yearlong boycott that resulted in the desegregation of public
buses. Ordinary citizens and local leaders joined the black struggle for
freedom. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was formed. In response,
may white southerners closed ranks in opposition to the burgeoning black
rights movement. Racial discrimination finally became a political issue.

Episode 2: Fighting Back (1957-1962) Fighting Back follows the
struggle for equality from the schoolroom to the courtroom and back as
blacks reject the existing system of “separate but equal” education. In
1954, the Supreme Court also rejects the system with its historic Brown
v. Board of Education decision. The legal battle won, in 1957 nine black
teenagers dare to integrate Little Rock 's Central High School . In 1962,
a resolute James Meredith enrolls at the University of Mississippi . Students,
parents, and lawyers unite to guarantee a better education and a better
future for their children.

America 's Civil Rights Years:

Eyes On The Prize

Volume 2

Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) and No Easy Walk (1962-1966)

1987

Episode 3: Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961)
Ain't scared of your jails chronicles the courage displayed by
thousands of young people and college students who joined the ranks of
the movement and gave it new direction. In 1960, lunch counter sit-ins
spread across the South, may organized by the new, energetic Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee. In 1961, on the Freedom Rides, many young people
faced violence and defied death threats as they labored to obliterate
segregation in interstate bus travel below the Mason-Dixon Line . The
growing movement toward racial equality influenced the 1960 Presidential
campaign; and federal rights versus state's rights became an issue.

Episode 4: No Easy Walk (1962-1966) No Easy Walk explores a crucial
phase in the civil rights movement—the emergence of mass demonstrations
and marches as a powerful protest vehicle. In Albany , Georgia , police
chief Laurie Pritchett challenged Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'s tactics
of nonviolent mass demonstration. In Birmingham , Alabama , school children
steadfastly marched against the violent spray of fire hoses and were jailed
as a result. The triumphant 1963 March on Washington , D.C. captured worldwide
attention and garnered broad national support, helping to shift federal
policy.

America 's Civil Rights Years:

Eyes On The Prize

Volume 3

Mississippi : Is This America ? (1962-1964) and Bridge to Freedom (1965)

1987

Episode 5: Mississippi : Is This America ?
(1962-1964) Focuses on the extraordinary personal risks faced by
ordinary citizens as they assumed responsibility for social change, particularly
during the 1962-64 voting rights campaign in Mississippi . The state became
a testing ground of constitutional principles as civil rights activists
concentrated their energies on the right to vote. White resistance to
the sharing of political power clashed with the strong determination of
movement leaders to bring Mississippi blacks to the ballot box. In Freedom
Summer 1964, tension between white resistance and movement activists climaxed
in the tragic murder of three young civil rights workers.

Episode 6: Bridge to Freedom (1965) In Bridge to Freedom, the
lessons of a decade are brought to bear in the climactic 1965 march from
Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, when thousands joined together to march
fifty miles for freedom. During the drive to make voting rights a national
issue, strategic and ideological differences began to surface between
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s SCLC and the younger activists on SNCC.
As white “blacklash” and segregationist resistance intensified, President
Lyndon B. Johnson promised to further the movement's legislative goals.
Then, as the movement began to splinter into factions, the Voting Rights
Act became federal law.

America 's Civil Rights Years:

Eyes On The Prize

Volume 4

The Time Has Come (1964-1965) and Two Societies (1965-1968)

1987

Episode 7: The Time Has Come (1964-1965)
During the decade of civil rights protest in the south, a sense of urgency
and anger emerged from the black communities in the north. This urgency
was best articulated by Malcolm X, then National Minister of the Nation
of Islam. Viewers follow the trajectory of Malcolm X's influence, both
within the movement and outside. The program shows the influence of his
philosophy on the staff of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC) as they organized the Lowndes County Freedom Organization in Alabama
and as they issued the call for “Black Power” during the 1966 Meredith
March Against Fear in Mississippi .

Episode 8: Two Societies (1965-1968) Against the backdrop of the
long hot summers of the mid-1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference went to Chicago in an attempt to apply
southern movement tactics to the urban north. Their strategies were tested
as they came up against the powerful political machinery of Mayor Richard
Daley. A year later, in Detroit , frustration and anger built to urban
violence as blacks and law officers clashed on city streets and America
appeared to be a nation out of control.

America 's Civil Rights Years:

Eyes On The Prize

Volume 5

Power! (1967-1968) and The Promised Land (1967-1968)

1987

Episode 9: Power! (1967-1968) Out of
the ashes of the urban rebellions, blacks looked for new ways to take
control of their communities; the ballot box, the street and the schools
became the dominant platforms. In Cleveland , the black community, together
with a segment of white voters, achieved an historic victory: the election
of Carl Stokes as the first African American mayor of a major city. In
Oakland , young black men and women attempted to confront continuing police
harassment by forming the Black Panther Party. In Brooklyn , New York
, black and Hispanic parents struggled to improve their children's education
through community control of schools. While these efforts had varying
degrees of success, they nevertheless resulted in greater empowerment
for their communities.

Episode 10: The Promised Land (1967-1968) In the final year of
Martin Luther King's life, the movement turned its attention to the economic
issues confronting the nation and the rumblings of a far off war in Vietnam
. Moved by the increasing level of poverty, Dr. King and his staff searched
for a strategy, in effect, an economic redistribution of wealth. They
began to organize a Poor People's Campaign, a march of the poor to Washington
, D.C. , where they would erect Resurrection City to embarrass and motivate
a reluctant government. In the midst of organizing the campaign, Dr. King
was called away to help black sanitation workers on strike in Memphis
. On April 4, 1968 , in Memphis , Martin Luther Jr. was assassinated.
Though devastated by the loss of their leader, King's staff struggled
to continue the campaign. Soon after its construction, Resurrection City
was shut down, marking the end of a chapter of the civil rights movement.

America 's Civil Rights Years:

Eyes On The Prize

Volume 6

Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-1972) and A Nation of Law? (1967-1968)

1987

Episode 11: Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-1972)
An awareness and sense of pride emerged through the struggle of
World Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay to be called by his new Islamic
name, Muhammad Ali. No longer content to use the mainstream culture as
their standard and rejecting images which traditionally stereotyped them
as servile and inferior, a new generation of African Americans began to
redefine itself. Propelled by the Black Consciousness Movement, they celebrated
black values and culture and their African roots. Howard University students
demanded a more black-oriented curriculum, and African-Americans of every
persuasion met to forge a new unity at the Black Political Convention
in Gary , Indiana .

Episode 12: A Nation of Law? (1967-1968) By the late 1960s, the
anger in poorer urban areas over charges of police brutality was smoldering.
In Chicago , Fred Hampton formed a Black Panther Party chapter. As the
chapter grew, so did police surveillance. In a pre-dawn assault by the
police, Panthers Hampton and Mark Clark were killed. The deaths came at
a time when movement activists were increasingly becoming targets of police
harassment at both the local and federal levels through COUNTELPRO, the
FBI's Counter Intelligence Program. During this same period, inmates at
New York 's Attica prison took over the prison in an effort to publicize
intolerable conditions. During the police assault which ended the takeover,
several inmates and guards were killed. For some, Attica came to symbolize
the brutality of a hardened political regime.

America 's Civil Rights Years:

Eyes On The Prize

Volume 7

The Keys to the Kingdom (1974-1980) and Episode 14: Back to the Movement
(1979-mid 1980s)

1987

Episode 13: The Keys to the Kingdom (1974-1980)
This show examines the relationship between law and popular struggle
as it chronicles efforts to inject substance into promises of equality.
The movement's focus is on the keys to the kingdom: jobs and education.
In Boston , black parents organize to improve their children's education
through court-ordered integration; the response of the white community
was swift and often violent. In Atlanta , Mayor Maynard Jackson, the city's
first black mayor, used the legal remedy of an affirmative action program
to guarantee black involvement in the construction of Atlanta 's airport.
Affirmative action programs did not go unchallenged, however, as Allan
Bakke took his suit against the University of California all the way to
the Supreme Court.

Episode 14: Back to the Movement (1979-mid 1980s) The series concludes
with an examination of two cities—one southern, one northern. In Miami
, Florida , viewers witness the destruction of Overtown, a once-thriving
community, as it was ravaged by urban renewal and the construction of
an interstate highway. Politically powerless, the community's economic
plight was worsened by the steady arrival of another minority group—Cuban
immigrants. In 1980, when white police officers were cleared of charges
following the death of a black businessman, Miami 's black community exploded
in the largest riot since Detroit , 1967. In the north, frustrated by
an unresponsive city administration, black Chicagoans successfully organized
for political change through a reform candidate and brought about the
election of Harold Washington, Chicago 's first black mayor. The series
ends with a look back at the people who made this movement a force for
change in America . We listen to those who have worked for justice in
the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as they reflect on their on-going
struggle. Viewers come to realize how far America has traveled to arrive
at this racial crossroads.